ᐅ Click vinyl or glue-down vinyl for underfloor heating and floating screed
Created on: 7 Nov 2018 06:44
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haukee
Good morning,
our building specification states: "...floating cement screed with impact sound and thermal insulation," and "underfloor heating with hot water."
Which type of vinyl flooring would be advisable here, and what experiences have you had? A discussion yesterday with a specialist retailer suggested glued vinyl, as the joints in click vinyl might be affected due to heat transmission. However, I have also heard opinions in favor of gluing...
Thank you,
haukee
our building specification states: "...floating cement screed with impact sound and thermal insulation," and "underfloor heating with hot water."
Which type of vinyl flooring would be advisable here, and what experiences have you had? A discussion yesterday with a specialist retailer suggested glued vinyl, as the joints in click vinyl might be affected due to heat transmission. However, I have also heard opinions in favor of gluing...
Thank you,
haukee
sco0ter schrieb:
There I was told that using adhesive offers "no real advantage. Not in terms of price, heating costs, acoustics, or technical aspects."Except in the case of repairs. Adhesive vinyl clearly has the advantage here. You simply remove the damaged plank, glue in a new one, and the job is done.With click vinyl, you first have to move all the furniture and then click your way from one side to the damaged plank. That can be quite tedious.
AxelH. schrieb:
Except for repairs. In that case, glued vinyl clearly has the advantage. You just remove the damaged plank, glue in a new one, and that’s it.
With click vinyl, you first have to clear out all the furniture and click your way from one side to the damaged plank. That can be quite tedious.That’s true. But I think it would be even worse with other floor coverings (laminate, hardwood, click cork, carpet). For example, we have glued hardwood flooring, which is also either pushed together or clicked.
There’s hardly anything you can do with that.
I’m basically facing the same problem 🙂
Floating or gluing... we’re also planning an underfloor heating system. Physically speaking, there shouldn’t be any heat loss, right? The only thing that happens is that it takes longer for the heat to reach the surface. Or am I misunderstanding this?
Floating or gluing... we’re also planning an underfloor heating system. Physically speaking, there shouldn’t be any heat loss, right? The only thing that happens is that it takes longer for the heat to reach the surface. Or am I misunderstanding this?
Well, it’s not quite that simple. Due to the insulating air layer, heat may not be released exactly where it is intended. This will result in a higher return temperature, meaning the designed heating surface areas may theoretically no longer be fully adequate. The extent to which this can be considered negligible depends on the specific system design.
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